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Keeping Pace

Can a legendary art gallery be handed down from father to son like a corner store? As Pace founder and impresario Arne Glimcher passes the business to his son Marc, the art world holds its breath.

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Kelly Crow

August 26, 2011

In 1973, Arne Glimcher flew to Paris to meet a preeminent Impressionist dealer, Daniel Wildenstein, who ran an art empire with his two sons out of a gated hôtel particulier near the Champs Elysées. As the four men sat at a long table surrounded by French antiques in the Wildensteins' private dining room and footmen served a sumptuous meal, the Wildensteins suggested they team up with Glimcher's Pace Gallery in New York to acquire top 20th-century art. The patriarch also inquired after Glimcher's own sons, who were then ages 12 and 10.